We welcome debate and opinion about the content we post, however, we reserve the right to delete posts that feature any of the following:

Offensive material such as swearing, sexism, racism or homophobia

Posts that libel or defame someone

Messages that name or identify specific Visit County Durham / Durham County Council employees

Posts that contain incorrect information that could mislead others

Posts containing personal information that it would be unwise to share in public

Posts or comments which seek to publicise campaigns by individuals, groups or organisations

Spam, advertising or phishing/scam messages

Copyrighted material from other sites without permission

Messages of a political nature

Anything else that may be considered upsetting/misleading or sensitive

If someone repeatedly posts such material on any of our social media outlets we may block them from posting anything further to protect other users. We may also reserve the right to report those posting inappropriate material to the relevant authorities.

If you wish to raise a concern about material on our social media feeds, please contact us.

We follow and like a small number of people, mostly our partners across the county and other organisations we work with and local media. This allows us to monitor important information that may be of benefit to our potential visitors. To enable us to do this we cannot follow or like a large number of other people as we would risk missing key messages. Therefore please don't be offended if we don't follow or like you back.

Please note: following or liking someone does not necessarily mean that we support or endorse them or their views.

We will re-tweet / share content posted by others that we consider valuable / important to visitors (potential visitors or visitors already in destination) or that we feel promotes the destination as a place to visit.

This will most likely be updates from tourism businesses across the county, residents, photographers and media.

We may also occasionally support (or be directly involved in) national campaigns or retweet information from partners relating to larger events that we are playing a part in, or using as a hook to promote the destination.

Please don't be offended if we don't retweet something that you have asked us to. As part of a local authority we are required to be very careful about what we retweet as this could be misconstrued as an endorsement of the person/organisation/event.